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100 good reasons to be a republican

Put not your trust in Princes - Psalm 146.

By The Old Statesman

27 March 1987: Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern on the subversiveness of soap

From our correspondence.

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22 March 1958: Barbara Castle, Father Hooper and justice in South Africa

From our correspondence.

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13 March 1937: British activist Agatha Harrison on progress in India

From our correspondence.

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Fitzgerald, Woolf and J G Ballard: five classic book reviews from the NS archive

Reviews by Amis, Pritchett, Royde-Smith and Naipul.

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Do Labour really want peace? A letter from Cecil Day-Lewis: 7 March 1936

From our correspondence.

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5 March 1938: Evelyn Waugh on the word “Fascist“

From our correspondence.

By The Old Statesman